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Alex Kemp
close date 2015-11-10 00:00:47.927251

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Microsoft Office support several different methods of password-encrypted files. LibreOffice can open some of the password-encrypted Microsoft Word files, but can't open all of the files. Details can be found on this help page.

How to remove password from Word is more a question for Microsoft Office - Word forum, but searching the web I found this.

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Thanks. That first URL suggests that I might be lucky (most or all of my WORD documents were created in versions of WORD that are shown as supported for imports of encrypted documents).

Re: the second URL, I hadn't intended to inquire about password 'removal' -- I know how to do it (and one can always resave any encrypted document without a password) -- I just wanted to avoid having to do it in order to import documents into LibreOffice.

As far as I'm aware, there's no method of 'bulk password removal' -- which means that any de-encryption method still involves dealing with every individual WORD document separately prior to importing into L.O. But if importing with encryption intact works, that will be the next best thing.